Moscow for Uglich

Leaving Moscow for Uglich

Time for a city tour, starting at the Sparrow Hills set 100 metres above the Moscow River and home to one of Stalin's sever sisters, built after he saw pictures of the Chicago skyline and reports of the completion of the worlds then highest building in New York of the Empire State Building. The State University, 260 metres tall to the star on the tip of the spire.

 Not the two red and white towers but between them is the city's tallest structure, just visible in the far distance.

 Moscows skyscrapers ib the business district.

 One of the worlds ugliest monuments to commemorate Peter the Greats foundation of the navy.

 In Red Square, the GUM department store, built in classical style.

 Inside GUM with its expensive shops, tiers of shops and walkways between levels and the glass domed roof.

 Harvest festival  on the ground floor of GUM.

 One of the entrances to Red Square adjacent to the red brick museum.

 Fire drill on board.

 Some shipping on the Volga.

 The belfry of Kalyazin now surrounded by the waters of the reservoir created by the dam downstream.

 The municipal offices o Uglich, a city 200 years older than Moscow.

 The bridge over the oat and entrance to the kremlin.

 A former church whose cupolas were removed when the Bolsheviks converted it to a cinema and now a museum.

 The cathedral of Uglich.

 The bell tower.

 The throne room...

 ...the ornate entrance to the throne room.

 The Tsarevich cathedral, built on the spot where the eight year old tsarevich, son of Ivan the Terrible, was murdered by Boris Godunov who was ruling as regent and then became tsar.

 A typical wooden house in the high street.

 The eternal flame in a public park near the river port.